The paper attempts to contribute to the discussion of the agricultural support distribution in the framework of Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union. Author used European Commission statistics of direct payments to explore the distribution patterns across farm holdings in EU Member...

The article deals with the issues of direct farm payments scheme aimed at an equalization of their level between Polish producers and those in the EU-12 or EU-15 countries. Such politically based view has been recently propagated in Poland. An analytical, theoretical and empirical approach is...

The economic theory links the growth of production factors remuneration with the productivity improvement. In the case of contemporary European agriculture, among the most important income creators are money transfers, namely direct payments. These transfers are part of the agricultural and...

The aim of the research was to determine the scope and the level of financial support from the EU funds to the orchard farms in the Lubelszczyzna region before and after Polish accession to the European Union. 65 orchard farmers in the Lubelskie province were interviewed by using standard...

Farm incomes in Poland have increased since the Polish integration with the European Union. The average monthly available income per household was in 2008 lower than income only of the self-employed entrepreneurs. A significant impact on this situation have the agricultural direct payments which...

Direct payments are one of the basic forms of support for agricultural income, which is used by 72-76% authorized farm households. Relation of number of applications to number of registered producers amounts to 80-85%. There is still a large number of farm households possessing above 1 ha of...

The purpose of this study is an attempt to show the range of effect an agricultural type of farm has as a factor differentiating the level of farm support from the EU’s funds. Direct payments and payments for the less favoured areas (LFAs) were analyzed in detail. Their amount was considered...

The aim of this paper was to analyze the changes of direct payments of the CAP. During the last 15 years the CAP has changed in response to pressures from the European society and its evolving economy. The 2003 reform marked a new phase in this process, introducing decoupled direct payments, via...

Considerations over the direct payments in the support regime of farms in the European Union are presented. Their meaning is analysed and the existing weaknesses are indicated, as well as the beneficial transformations inspired by the direct payments. Necessity of redefinition of aims of the...

The paper deals with the future of direct payments system in the EU agriculture. Different scenarios of the current system adjustments, as proposed by the European Commission, are presented. Four possible scenarios are being discussed: An ‘EU flat rate’, a pragmatic approach, the use of...